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So when reading about the upcoming Dishonoured and the potential for game breaking behaviour and with the upcoming Deus Ex sequel I was once more reminded of one of the most stupidly impressive playthroughs, the completion of the entire game using no weapons by an intrepid Planet Deus Ex forum goer by the name of Alginon. if you haven't read or watched this before (for yes, it is old, but I'd imagine many haven't stumbled across it) and you like Deus Ex then prepare to be amazed!

There's a word document which lays it all out in an entertaining fashion (it starts a bit slow but bear with it, it was a long venture and the writing style definitely improves vastly throughout) which can be downloaded from the following forum thread (about halfway down the page).

So as well as admiring this or wondering how anyone could spend so much time on such an endeavour (hint - by being awesome!) why not flag up any other impressive gaming feat that you think others will enjoy to hear about. Preferably with videos or an entertaining written account.

There's actually a playthrough on youtube where it's done on realistic difficulty without using any items, skills, or augs. In fact in the entire game he never puts anything in his inventory, he only uses things you can carry around, (i.e. boxes). It's pretty amusing. Starts here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAVRpvgYVMg

After reading some of that playthrough, I decided to do my own no weapons run. So far I've gotten to Hell's Kitchen (first time) without using a single inventory weapon; only used lockpicks, multitools, and crates of dynamite. It's a lot of fun so far, though I expect later it will get more frustrating.

I also find all the Resident Evil knife only runs to be pretty impressive, considering I tend to have a tough time with those games even while using the most powerful weapons.

Of all the many challenge runs I've seen on the Internet, the one that me impressed the most was the "System Shock 2 Pacifist Approach". Playing through the game on the highest difficulty without using any weapons. Unfortunately, it seems to have stopped at the Rickenbacker and the early videos suffer from the old youtube quality, but it's still a fascinating watch. Even more so since completing SS2 on the highest difficulty without any gimmicks is an impressive feat in itself. http://www.youtube.com/user/Shephard.../0/kTfVlcCWw5Q

Of course, there's also http://tasvideos.org/ and http://speeddemosarchive.com/, which I assume are sites most people here are familiar with. The former doesn't have many PC related games, but is still very much worth checking out if you haven't done so already.

There's actually a playthrough on youtube where it's done on realistic difficulty without using any items, skills, or augs. In fact in the entire game he never puts anything in his inventory, he only uses things you can carry around, (i.e. boxes). It's pretty amusing. Starts here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAVRpvgYVMg